Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-05-28
.JOlHN BRIGHT.
A Personal Description of the Recruit
of Forty Years Ago and the Veteran
Of TO-DAY.

London Cor New York Sun
The is strong old man sitting in the house oc-
casionany who illustrates how great career may
be turned backward. he has been in the house
torty years, and has sat for one constituency
twenty-eight years Far back in his stock there
were Jews. From Hebrew 10 quaker seems long
stride. When he ambles with his stout stick
through the lobby, men generally take Of their
hats. When he entered the house in past days
he was often greeted With a cheer. Now fewer
men than ever uncover 10 his short, firm step.
Now when he enters the house no attention is
paid 10 MIN.
He sits II ne can, in one OF the seats below the
gangway, near the aisle be sits often with both
hands cItSping his and his chin on his hands,
rejecting deeply and paying only little attention
10 what is going on about him His shoulders
are slightly stopped His chin IS slightly pro-
tr,lding- His lips purse like Il petuianJ child's.
HIS large kindly blue eyes weak and iuStereSS.
Lis abundant hair, white and disposed 10 wave
and crinkle. falls down over his brow. His beard
II frothy, Ike SplIshes OF white surf He sits
Silent, Sullen, or Pdeid, as II living much IN the
past. When he takes his babiJu1I attitude, his
pose rather than his fgure recalls familiar pic
Iare OF Sir Walter Scott All his critics concur
in the opinion that like Brougham and Lord John
and OC0nneu John Bright has OUIliyed his career,
and that bis last years marrtng splendid re-
h0En won on the side OF the people in support OF
progress and liberty.
II acceptance OF office ever proved fatal 10 a
great and soaring spirit IL was fatal 10 the spirit
Of John Bright. Had the queen, when he Visited
NindsOr To receive his commission as chancellor
OF the Ducby Of Lancaster, pressed 10 his lips a
unilter 20 produce d.crepiJuie. she could not have
The poison. But the evil had gotten into his blood
and time only developed it. He chdmploned the
compensation for disturbance bill with mis- wonted
zeal and power, but 50 distinct Was the conviction
already settled Ia The pubic mind That the Bright
OF old was undergoing transformation, thaJ tue
valiant radical was DecOLliLy the 1iunheyi~h con-
Servatiye, that The principles OF Spiendld prime
were being lost sight OF in the dim and misty OLD
age OF place-hoider, that the house gave W his
Sras 1p N
amaze and StaTte him. Little ny little he retired
deeper and deeper into irriJaDiity ana seciuSlon,
his liberalism disappearing with his energy
When he emerged again into active public lfe he
had >lled his fame with partial responsibility lof
the fIagrant outrage OF the DOmDaTdment "a Alex
andra, ana had begun an open and aggressive az
yuc,tcy of coercion Tor Ireland.
john Bright and Gladstone had never scene OF
parting, ami Until recently have never actively
engaged in personal aGtdgOnisin- when Bright
went out with Chamberlain and Huntingdon, tne
devotion that had existed Tor nearly hail q cen
fury between IiIesc Two men suffered 4 SHOCK
whose effects can never u repaired Gladstone
Sill SPEAKS VI him with pathetic regret, ana me
nery old eyes melt and g.lSteH when he IdlnentS
over Bright in private. Bright, on the oJher hand,
Il treated By his family friends rs one 10 Dc
petted and inIulgc!. because OF Seniilty- lbs
brother and -onS are useful GI4dStOAl4no- i ne
gospel he taught t8ey npit last In MS private
nie ne is chiiShiy Yain ami ioau Oh attention anu
indulgence, and Is GIatIfled Iui4| as possible
n bitterly denOCnCCs5 tn- inTr.tJuie Oi tne lrlSh,
and Cannot t8..t il i Ne wnO mas CT inSed.
The America N pictured as the Mecca of jic irish
he now dcDCJ.lCc5 the ccnjer Of revolution ana
mischief. Bc.IOtiIcy. which he anticipated In
glowing periods III ais Younger days. he abhors
now as unrelsoninS a, Carlyle the French reVolu-
lion
ms mink face is rarely lighted by those flashes
Of huGiOr which mad i!Iu Vu' ~ the most utslra-
biz companions jne iUDtil and along the Thames
The people who used 10 cheer him wherever AMI
whenever h. appeared, gsuWeT al HIN 1n puDilc,
ana ignore Gi:u Oh Ordinary OCcdSORs- His course
fir years has east shadow over his entire
past, and under that ~h-,,io" ne iags oupernuous